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Category "California Water Law & Policy"

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Procedure For Challenging Regulations Defining the Scope of the Clean Water Act, Leaving Substance Unresolved

Reversing a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court held that challenges to [...]

Can the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designate Uninhabitable Areas as ‘Critical Habitat’ of a Listed Species—Must Courts Defer to Its Interpretation of the ESA?

Can areas unoccupied and uninhabitable by a species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act [...]

Justice Kennedy’s Opinion In Rapanos Still Controls Questions of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Within the Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on November 27, has re-established that Justice Kennedy’s concurring [...]

U.S. Secretary Of The Interior Formally Executes Pechanga Water Rights Settlement Agreement

On November 29, 2017, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Mark Macarro, Chairman [...]